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[Mark Onofri]

Oh yeah, went back to 1-1/16" oroange aj's(to clear the giant gear).

[Isaac S.]

Thanks for the update.

[Pete L.]

The 2nd chassis is made with Parma brass parts, but I don't think Parma  built it. It's sombody's scratchbuilt.. That front axle is Champion/s Arco-lite. Available in both 1/8 & 3/32 diameters, both like to eat brass tubing. They were used for awhile, but never were very popular. From your description, it doesn't sound like it ever had a motor in it. From the photo, it looks like it was made for C-cans.

 

That first chassis is definitely one of REHCO's pieces of art. They hired  a Baltimore area chassis builder to build them some chassis using parts they bought out from closed companies. There never was a Cox NASCAR 26D. Cox never had any 26D. As far as I know, there were two sizes of NASCAR motors,, the large (36D) & a smaller (16D) size. I never owned any of the Cox NASCAR motors.

 

Mark, in the future, it could be helpful to post both topside & bottomside photos of a chassis, particularly something scratchbuilt.

I've used the ARCO-lite axles for building chassis, it isolated the heat form the wheels and tires I used before I got my jig wheels/blocks.

[Bill from NH]

Pete, I never built a chassis using wheels & tires to set axle height. I know some do, especially if they build on a Russkit jig. My first jig was a laminate covered piece of plywood that came with square aluminum jig wheels (blocks) that had off-centered 1/8" axle holes for four tire sizes. I can see how the arcolites would be handy when using wheels & tires.